Couple of weeks ago I received an email which told a story about someone who found ways to improve productivity, lift profits, and better manage remote resources using something called 15five. The email also had a audio in which Ken Everett (N2N Hub, Australia ) is having a conversation with Iain Chalmers (Holst Group, UK) who is using 15five and being productive. The conversation was insightful...

When it comes to Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) which promises to increase an enterprise's productivity, my experience has been pretty bad. As a result, I didn't believe they added value but Elena Luk'yanenko who is a Customer Success Manager, APAC,Microsoft,Productivity Cloud Solutions proves me wrong in this cafe chat. Before we begin.. What is Enterprise Social Network (ESN)? "ESN, is like...

Could a simple story led interaction with another person dramatically increase your productivity? Let's answer this question Maria and Sue work for a technology company. Maria works as a Business Development Manager and Sue is the software engineer. Maria meets a new client finds out what they need, writes a proposal in conjunction with other team members and if the clients likes the proposal the...

This is our 2nd blog of our blog series Storytelling passes the Productivity Test. In our first blog we wrote about the importance of Knowledge sharing via stories This blog is focussed on vision statement and its relationship with productivity What are vision statements? A vision statement says what the organization wishes to be like in some years' time. It's usually drawn up by senior...

For me this year is going to be about being Productive So, what is Productivity? Productivity is an average measure of the efficiency of production. Confused ? Lets understand it in this way: For example, Mary cleans 2 floors in 10 hrs and Joe cleans 5 floors in 10 hrs. Joe's productivity is .5 floors per hour and Mary's productivity is .2 floors per hour. So, Joe is more productive then Mary...